D.C. takeover shows how cities can lose control of surveillance

The District of Columbia is fighting for control of its police department, and the expensive technology investments inside it. Hours after a new federal “emergency police commissioner” was installed, Washington’s attorney general filed a lawsuit to block the action, calling it “brazenly unlawful.”

Many eyes are on the 850 federal agents in tactical gear that have “surged” across Washington, D.C., this week as part of President Donald Trump’s executive order to address what he called “out of control” crime. But behind the officers lie thousands of cameras in a private room filled with the glow of computer screens all connected to one master feed.

It’s called the Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC), where a team of analysts watches a network of more than 28,000 public and private cameras positioned across the district on a 24/7 basis, made possible by a new, multimillion-dollar, AI-powered surveillance center known as FususONE.

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